Commissioner John Ulfelder - Planning Commission

Effective January 23, 2014, John Ulfelder was appointed by the Board of
Supervisors as the Dranesville representative to the Planning Commission
on a motion by Supervisor John W. Foust.

Mr. Ulfelder retired in 2010 as a Senior Vice President and partner
from WEST*GROUP, a large real estate development and management firm
based in Tysons Corner, after WEST*GROUP completed the sale of its
entire portfolio of properties. Prior to joining WEST*GROUP in
1989, he worked at the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency in
Washington, D.C. for thirteen years as an attorney in the Office of
Enforcement, the Office of General Counsel and as a Special Assistant
to the Administrator of EPA and Executive Assistant to the Deputy
Administrator of EPA. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution from
1973-75 and the General Counsel’s Office of the United States
Commission on Civil Rights from 1967 to 1972.

Mr. Ulfelder received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1964 and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania
School of Law in 1967. He has been a member of the Bar of the District
of Columbia since 1968. Mr. Ulfelder has been active with a
number of local community groups and non-profit organizations. He
served on the board of the Great Falls Citizens Association (GFCA) from
1991 to 2003, as well as serving as president of the GFCA from 1997 to
2000 and chairing the Land Use and Zoning Committee from 2001 to 2005.
He served on the board

of the Audubon Naturalist Society of the Mid-Atlantic (ANS) from 2000
to 2006. He has served on the boards of the McLean Project for the Arts
(MPA), the McLean Orchestra, the INOVA Health System Foundation, the
Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NVRPA) Foundation and Great
Falls Heritage Inc. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees
of WETA, Washington D.C.’s local public television and radio station,
and chair’s WETA’s Finance and Budget Committee. He is a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Virginia chapter of The Nature Conservancy and
serves as the chapter’s representative on the Conservancy’s Trustee
Council as well as co-chair of the Conservancy’s Global Ambassador
program.

Mr. Ulfelder served on the last four Dranesville District Area Plan
Review (APR) Task Forces and served as chairman during the two most
recent reviews (2004 and 2008). He served as chairman of the Hunter
Mill Road Area Special Study in 2005 and 2006. He served on the
Dranesville District Budget Review Task Forces for FY’s 2012, 2013 and
2014 (Chairman for FY 2014). Most recently he served on the Rt. 28
Station (“Innovation”) South Working Group.